EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Council to issue such bonds at one time to the amount of five

thousand dollars, but are hereby authorized and empowered

to issue the different series from time to time as necessity may

arise, and the total issue under the provisions of this Act shall

in no case exceed the said sum of fifteen thousand dollars.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the funds arising from the

sale of said bonds shall be at the disposal of said Mayor and

Funds: How
used.

City Council in their discretion for the payment of such ex-

penses for the improvement, maintenance or repair of the

streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, ways, gutters or sidewalks of

said city, or for such other public improvements as to the said

Mayor and City Council may seem proper.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said Mayor and City

Council are hereby authorized and empowered to employ and

Employment
of agents.etc.

compensate such agents, officers, servants or employees as may

be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts in-

consistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same are

hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 562.

AN ACT to define and regulate the time for the taking and

catching of oysters with scoops, scrapes and dredges in the

waters of Dorchester and Talbot Counties, and to amend

Section 250 of Article 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws.

title "Dorchester County,": sub-title "Oysters," and Section

161 of Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

"Talbot County," sub-title "Oysters," as amended by Chap-

ter 674 of the Acts of 1900.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to
take or catch oysters with scoop, scrape or dredge in the

Pertaining to
taking of oys-
ters with

waters of Dorchester and Talbot Counties, as now permitted

dredges, etc.

by law, between the fifteenth day of March and the first day

of November next, and for a violation of the same shall be